Bottomless Basket of Kittens

I bought this pink basket for Charlene when she was just a tiny tot. She slept in it for her first year, then outgrew it. Now, it belongs to the kittens.

Every single litter we've had has curled up in this basket. Oh, the memories it holds.
(and thank goodness it's machine washable)

Here's a little sampling of the cuteness this basket has contained.

Twenty Nine in 2009

Oh wow, what a year it's been. It was such a pleasure getting to know each of these 29 very special little beings, watching them grow, and seeing their personalities develop.

We had some good times , and some worrisome times too. In the end.. all was well and our happy, healthy kittens all met their families and left our nest.

Thanks for being there by our side through it all. We appreciate you so much. You are an amazing, loving, community and your supportive ways always lighten our load.


Happy New Year, friends. We wish you ALL the best, and look forward to spending 2010 with you!

Lots and lots of love and hugs,

Laurie, Craig, Drewey, Charlene Butterbean, Walter and Ira.

OH, What A Year It's Been!

Today this Itty Bitty Blog is celebrating it's two year anniversary! What a year it's been! We've met so many amazing little kittens and found so many wonderful families to adopt them. Our community has grown bigger (it more than doubled over the past year) and stronger (so many friendships forged). We also joined together to raise almost 23 sqillion to help the homeless cats and kittens.

Thank you once again for all your love and support. I appreciate you all stopping by each day. I am thankful for all the comments you leave and the notes you send us. You're a lovely community, and I appreciate you all so much. Out of all the blogs out there,, I doubt there's a warmer bunch of followers.

Thank you for ALWAYS being there.


In honer of this blogiversary, I thought I would share some stats with you.

In the past year we fostered 32 kittens and placed them with 17 families.
The Davenports (5)
The Livermore (4)
The LaBaths (4)
The Ashbys (5)
The Lovejoys (4)
The Darlings (5)
The Fortunatos (5)

The posts with the most views:
Bathtub + Ping Pong Ball = Hours of fun
It Truly is a Miracle
Francine Throws Her Weight Around
Sweetness Sleeping
The Itty Bitty Christmas Committee(a post from the previous year, but for some reason, it got an awful lot of visits this year)

The Posts with the most comments:
Ok Are You Ready?
Heart-Breakin Harlan Lovejoy
Give Us a Big High-Five Hubie
The Lovely Little LaBath Ladies
He's Just a Little Toooooo Knead-y

Most searched labels:
Jerry Lee
Charlene Butterbean
Maddie
Willamena
The Pettibone Family

Some of my favorite moments: (in no particular order,,and certainly not all of them!)
Enid and her angel wings
Albert Livermore claims his mother.
The Itty Bitty Vampire Committee
Orson gives us the bird
Kickin' serious booty with our very first fundraiser
And of course The opuurrrrators at the telethon
Nelson Lovejoy's tongue
Butterbean's birthday!
Hover-cats, Rupert and Clovis
Our blissed-out biscotti maker, Gaetano

Countries with the most IBKC visitors
1.United States
2.Canada
3.UK
4.Australia
5.Germany

Cities with the most IBKC visitors
1.Seattle
2.New York
3.Tacoma
4.Chicago
5.San Francisco
6.London
7.Portland
8.Washington DC
9.Vancouver BC
10.Houston

If you would care to look at last years stats, click here.


THANK YOU for an amazing year. We can hardly wait to see what's next!!

xoxo

Lots of love, Laurie, Craig, Charlene Butterbean, Drewster and all the IBKs

New Kitty Cards!

I'm happy to announce that there are new IBKC cards available! There are two sets of six cards. One features the Ashby Family and the other, The Lovejoys. If you'd like to pick up a set or two, pop on over to my Etsy Shop. They're all packed up and ready to go, so any sets purchased by 3:00 PM PST, will be set out in this afternoon's post. If you buy both sets, I'll be throwing in several bonus cards from the previous litters.

Click here to visit the IBKC Etsy Shop.

To make sure the cards were up to snuff, I had a small focus group review them. Some found them to be quite tasty. Others thought the round corners were nice, but they should be rounder, so they could chase them. All agreed, the kittens on the cards were quite attractive.





PS
I have a kitten sitting on my head. It's Neville, and he's purring and making biscuits. Just thought I'd share that with you.